Masterlink post for a small collection of pictures / scans from my copies of some NJPW books/magazines. This’ll be a sidebar bullet on my tumblr but I may as well post it while I’m at it.
Don’t delete my captions if you reblog anything pls. (I’m done arguing I’ll just block you, it upsets me a lot), link back if you repost the pictures (these specific versions, obviously, not random ones from other sources). The earliest ones aren’t stamped w/ watermarks because at the time like…3 ppl cared, but, the later ones are because other people came to care and of course immediately stole them all and reposted them over half the internet. Anyway - they’re all cool books/magazines, pick them up if you ever have the chance! I mean they’re all in Japanese, but that isn’t stopping me. It’s certainly slowing me down some, but it’s not stopping me. -_-
(while I’m at it, my tag for bits of info I can glean from the books as I translate them is Fucked in translation. Haven’t always been using it but I’ve got most of the fun fact posts tagged now, I think…)
自伝キング・オブ・ストロングスタイル 1980-2004 (Autobiography King of Strong Style 1980-2004):
Attempt 1 at the front-of-the-book gallery (I was pretty excited when they first got here lol)
Some much clearer shots of the front gallery
Attempt 1 at the baby pictures (!)
Attempt 2 at the baby pictures
Some awkward teenaged Shinsuke
Shinsuke w/ shoe prints on his face because, to put it briefly, Antonio Inoki is a fucking lunatic
An evolutionary journey, if you will
B/W photo of a cryptid doofus in the boardinghouse kitchen
自伝キング・オブ・ストロングスタイル 2005-2014 (Autobiography King of Strong Style 2005-2014):
Some impromptu cosplay in China (and a better shot of it from later on lol)
Random black and white shots
Shinsuke at Disneyland with his mum lol
…and that time he put a picture of his puppy playing with a doll I made for him in his book and gave me seven simultaneous heart attacks…
1/100 (‘The one-hundredth’, his photobook):
棚橋弘至はなぜ新日本プロレスを変えることができたのか:
Not as many but here’s the pic post
His spotlight issue of もえプロ
His photoshoot from NJPW Official Magazine no. 6:
『カウント2.9から立ち上がれ 逆境からの「復活力」』 (his latest book)
The front/back covers, hidden under the dust jacket
The shirtless pictures (it is a motivational book)
His second Spa! gravure shoot
I’m just gonna call this “Flow” because the actual magazine title is so long but it was his 20th anniversary magazine:
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kota Ibushi / Shinsuke Nakamura & Kazuchika Okada:
All four guys were given a written questionnaire, which I have done my level best to translate
A few shots that I managed to scan from both 1/100 and Be
This is a magazine that Rachel picked up for me in Japan, the pic post list is here organized by person, there are too many to bother listing again here or dividing into parts.
Sports Graphic Number (The Final, 2019)
There are enough various ppl to justify just a master links post, so here it is
(The?) COMPLETE BOOK (of??) CHAOS
